Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [verb] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My confidence suffered so much that I failed to reach the 50-wicket mark in three successive County Championship campaigns with Middlesex . |
| 2 | ‘ Now that I 've seen the finished copy I 'm delighted that I encouraged Susan to write it , ’ said Mrs Major . |
| 3 | I 'll feel that I 've lost a good friend . |
| 4 | I 've been I 've been advised chair that I 've made the same mistake as you did so . |
| 5 | You might like to know that I 've approached no other company . |
| 6 | Or ‘ I had a binge last night and I 've no excuse , except that I 've got a terrible hangover this morning and I 'll try again tomorrow . ’ |
| 7 | Erm what I 'm doing basically is er putting on as many exhibitions as I can using the centre 's name and making sure that I 've got a good amount of my work in there , although I do n't push anybody else out . |
| 8 | Yeah it 's like with me , I mean of course do n't forget that I 've got a good two hundred pounds to come on about the fifth of December from the British Legion 's savings . |
| 9 | ‘ Clients have to be — and are — aware that I 've got a young family and that if they ring me after 5pm there are likely to be children screaming for their tea in the background . ’ |
| 10 | It 's not wa with a microphone it 's just that I 've got a little socket for a microphone . |
| 11 | ‘ Then I know that I 've got the better of them . |
| 12 | There was general approval that I 'd asked the right question — no one back in the newsroom realised how hard it had been . |
| 13 | On the day I left Woodline you knew that I 'd made an enormous mistake , yet you — ’ |
| 14 | I was so afraid tonight when you did n't show up that I 'd made the biggest mistake of my life in letting you go back to England without trying to extract a promise from you . ’ |
| 15 | I thought that I 'd created a new directory but I did n't . |
| 16 | I thought , I 'd like him to think that I 'd improved a little bit . |
| 17 | I explained that I 'd told the sleeping-car attendants that Zak wanted to use him in a scene . |
| 18 | Besides , despite the fact that I 'd got a good grade for my speech , I thought I 'd made a bit of a mess of it and was just relieved it was all over . |
| 19 | I became even more thankful that I 'd had a normal birth as it would have been so hard to cope after a repeat section . |
| 20 | It was from little hints such as this , undoubtedly consciously dropped , that I began to build a fuller appreciation of what Mr Broadhurst really was . |
| 21 | It was only as we came in to Maidstone and I started looking for Hospital signs that I began to suffer the nervous Whirling Pits way down in my stomach . |
| 22 | It was on these - " moderate " walks that I came to appreciate the astonishing versatility of' the Dales , how inhospitably barren they can look from the brow of one hill , then how welcomingly like the gentle South Downs from the next ; how one village , little more than a pub and a row of stone cottages , might be as gaunt and forbidding as some remote Highland hamlet , while another will be so prettified and roses-round-the-door picturesque that , but for the backcloth of soaring hills or looming crags , and the uncoursed rubble walls wending like strips of children 's Plasticine up to the horizon , it could be in Mummerset . |
| 23 | A lot of excellent furniture-makers that I know have an unreasonable fear of chair-making ; for some reason or other even the strong go limp at the thought of all those angles and curves . |
| 24 | One of the most bizarre examples of convergent evolution that I know concerns the so-called periodical cicadas . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm sorry to keep you waiting , ’ he went on , ‘ but those of you who have been here before will know that I like to say a few words to break the ice before we get down to the real business of the weekend . |
| 26 | It is against this background that I wish to consider the contemporary Crisis of Capitalism . |
| 27 | A problem I have which I hope you can solve is that I wish to build a ammeter to test alternator outputs . |
| 28 | It is with the greatest pleasure that I wish to throw a large bouquet in their direction . |
| 29 | The dogs follow the trail , so there is no problem , but it does mean that I miss seeing the sudden three metre drop that we go down to reach a frozen river . |
| 30 | I needed to be reassured that I had reached a hospitable culture … |